Introduction
Nursing home residents are constantly known for being depressed, having harmful health consequences, and malnutrition. Researchers in New Hampshire want to know whether or not the residents of nursing homes are more depressed in their first year and the causes of this. They will compare these results with previous years of study to see if depressive symptoms have increased or decreased. The conducted study will acknowledge the timing and cofactors of depressive symptoms among the United States Citizens living in nursing homes.
Methods
Assessments were taken during 1999-2006 on New Hampshire residents. All patients are older than 65 years of age staying at non-hospital based nursing homes in New York, Florida, Texas, Illinois, New Jersey, Georgia, and Ohio. None of the patients were previously diagnosed with bipolar illness or …show more content…
Patients that admitted in 1999 produced a percentage of 42.2 for the number of depressive diagnosis while the patients admitted in 2005 produced 51.4%. More women than men shows depressive symptoms in the beginning but evened out some by the end of the year. Patients who were 95 and older showed the slowest progression of depressive symptoms over the course of a year. Patients who are divorced showed the fastest progression of symptoms in the allotted time—closely followed by the patients who are married or widowed. Antidepressant usage rose from 28.7% to 37.5% in the years 1999 to 2005. Previous studies were parallel to the current study. Researchers in the future would look into why the depression diagnoses were greater in the first 3 months compared to the last 3 months. The results from this study suggest that other factors such as chronic pain may play a larger role in new depression than originally assumed. The study also suggests the need to recognize and monitor or treat depression in elders living in nursing
Nursing home residents are constantly known for being depressed, having harmful health consequences, and malnutrition. Researchers in New Hampshire want to know whether or not the residents of nursing homes are more depressed in their first year and the causes of this. They will compare these results with previous years of study to see if depressive symptoms have increased or decreased. The conducted study will acknowledge the timing and cofactors of depressive symptoms among the United States Citizens living in nursing homes.
Methods
Assessments were taken during 1999-2006 on New Hampshire residents. All patients are older than 65 years of age staying at non-hospital based nursing homes in New York, Florida, Texas, Illinois, New Jersey, Georgia, and Ohio. None of the patients were previously diagnosed with bipolar illness or …show more content…
Patients that admitted in 1999 produced a percentage of 42.2 for the number of depressive diagnosis while the patients admitted in 2005 produced 51.4%. More women than men shows depressive symptoms in the beginning but evened out some by the end of the year. Patients who were 95 and older showed the slowest progression of depressive symptoms over the course of a year. Patients who are divorced showed the fastest progression of symptoms in the allotted time—closely followed by the patients who are married or widowed. Antidepressant usage rose from 28.7% to 37.5% in the years 1999 to 2005. Previous studies were parallel to the current study. Researchers in the future would look into why the depression diagnoses were greater in the first 3 months compared to the last 3 months. The results from this study suggest that other factors such as chronic pain may play a larger role in new depression than originally assumed. The study also suggests the need to recognize and monitor or treat depression in elders living in nursing